How to Save Webpage as PDF from Mac in Safari

Need to save a webpage as a PDF file on a Mac? Safari on the Mac makes saving webpages as a PDF very easy. Exporting a webpage in PDF format is useful for many purposes, whether you want to access an offline version of a webpage or article, to transmit information on a webpage as PDF format like a health record, call record, bill, or statement, for records keeping purposes, to send to someone else or a print shop, and so much more.

This tutorial will show you how to easily save a webpage as a PDF file using the Safari web browser on a Mac.

How to Save Webpages as PDF on Mac with Safari

Open Safari on the Mac, then navigate to the webpage you want to save as a PDF file

Pull down the “File” menu in Safari

Choose “Export as PDF” from the File menu

Set the file name and choose a file destination and choose “Save” to save the webpage as a PDF

The PDF file of the saved webpage will be wherever you saved the file to, whether that was your user Documents folder, the Desktop, Downloads folder, or elsewhere.

The resulting webpage PDF can be used just like any other PDF file, you can email it, share it, upload it, or whatever else just like any other PDF document.

If for some reason this doesn’t work for you, or if you’re using a different web browser on a Mac that doesn’t support the direct ‘Export as PDF’ option, you can still easily save a webpage as a PDF by simply using Print to PDF on the Mac, which is available on every Mac OS release. If you find yourself using that feature often enough you can even set a “Save as PDF” keyboard shortcut for use on the Mac to be able to quickly perform that function.

Great tip and you’re absolutely right, if you’re saving an article and want to strip it down to the bare essentials of content before creating a PDF or printing it, using Reader View first is excellent.

We actually wrote about that a while back specifically for printing articles without ads and other page clutter that can waste ink, but it certainly applies to PDF as well!

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